Splattercat gaming. He covers one indie game every day.
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Splat is amazing. He is my go-to guy when looking for a new game.
Welcome back to the nerd castle, today in the world of indie games we’re looking at …
If you enjoy watching a maniac break indie games, I can recommend Let's Game It Out on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCto7D1L-MiRoOziCXK9uT5Q
The titles may look like click bait, but they are in fact not. The amount of time and work put into a casual "let's break this small survival indie game" video is ridiculous.
They focus on abusing game mechanics and explore the limits on game loops and player guidance in games. Mostly survival, simulation and management games, and not all content is indie. All with a good dose of absurdity.
That sounds like it could be fun!
Only in the souls like niche, but Iron Pineapple covers a lot of often unknown indie games in his series of steam dumpster diving (don't be fooled by the name, a lot of the games are good)
I found Going Under through Pineapple and it was fantastic, definitely worth checking out every now and then
Northernlion is the indy youtuber goat
Stay pegged gamer
LETSGO
I thought he just played Super Auto Pets
SAP is his current time filler game, but his content is mostly about the banter and less about the gameplay. He is mainly an indie/variety streamer tho
To some degree I think you would like "Let's Game It Out". He almost exclusively plays indie and early access games... he breaks them, yes, but that's where the fun is at.
If you are up for written reviews: Buried Treasure does a very good job of digging up stuff that hardly ever gets any attention elsewhere.
Very cool, thanks!
Written reviews are the best, thanks! Looks like I'm going down a rabbit hole, I think I've seen one of the games listed from the last year of reviews, and that's only because I followed a rabbit hole mentioned by a YouTuber that led to me stumbling on it.
A couple of blog suggestions:
Weird Fucking Games. Guess what that blog is about.
There's also Virtual Moose, who blogs about a bunch of stuff, but mostly retro and obscure indie games.
Finally, Indie Hell Zone. IDH isn't updated nearly as frequently as the first two, but there's still plenty of archives to go through.
Thanks for these! Indie Hell Zone sounds like it would be for laughing at bad games 😅
Vinny Vinesauce quite often will play lesser known games especially on Sundays. I've discovered quite a few games through him
Quill18 covers a lot of smaller games.
FloppySword and Sgtkelvin on YT
Playframe doesn’t exclusively highlight small indie games, but they do cover a fair number of them alongside various bigger games.
Although, I guess it depends on how unknown a game has to be to “count” as “lesser-known”; I’ve certainly been introduced to games by Playframe, but, it’s not like they’re going onto Steam Roulette or anything.
Some examples of games that I personally hadn’t heard of until they showed up on Playframe include “Worldless”, “Cursed to Golf”, “Frog Detective”, “Say No! More!”, etc. I don’t think any of those are, like, deeply obscure or anything, but, they’re “smaller” indie games in my book.
Also, they’re just really rad people.
I don't really know what qualifies either tbh, but it's just easy to only hear about the big stuff coming out. Thanks for the recommendation!
I quite like Retromation aside from the ones mentioned so far. Some games he'll turn into a longer series while continually showcasing new titles as well.
Stuff+ generally always has a Prison Architect and one other game series going, then does one-shot videos of random indie stuff in between. He's also not loud and annoying the way youtube gamers tend to be and doesn't have a webcam feed covering a quarter of the screen, it's just about the games.